GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should be 192% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 73600 (192%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB is much (about 131%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34640 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10840 (164%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.